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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 5/5/2025 Item No.: 7.d. Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Discuss Initiating Climate Equity Action Plan 1 2 Background 3 Roseville’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan set forth a goal to support Minnesota’s Next 4 Generation Energy Act goal of an 80% reduction in communitywide greenhouse gas 5(GHG) emissions, from 2005 levels by 2050, through leading by example in addition to 6 education, incentives, and regulation to encourage action by residents and businesses. 7 8 Since the 2040 comprehensvie plan was adopted, Minnesota released a Climate Action 9 Framework in 2022 with an updated goal for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, 10 with plans to substantially reduce GHG emissions and offset remaining emissions with 11 carbon sequestration throughout the landscape. Similarly, the Metropolitan Council will now 12 require cities' 2050 comprehensive plans to include carbon reduction goals. Roseville 13 completed a Vulnerable Populations report in 2017 and an Energy Action Plan in 2021, but 14 currently lacks a comprehensive climate equity action plan to direct city planning, 15 programming, and budgeting with regards to climate change adaptation and mitigation 16 across the community. 17 18 The City of Roseville is already experiencing the effects of climate change, with warming 19 winters, reduced snow cover, more frequent heavy rainfall and severe weather events, 20 extended periods of drought, and more days with poor air quality. Developing a climate 21 equity action plan will help Roseville prepare for effects of climate change that will affect the 22 city, its residents, and visitors, while working to maintain the high quality of life the city 23 offers. Additionally, as identified in our Vulnerable Populations report, some communities 24 within Roseville such as people over the age of 65 and under the age of 5, people with 25 disabilities, recent immigrants, and Black and Indigenous people of color will experience 26 the effects of climate change “worst and first.” It is important that a Roseville climate equity 27 action plan centers equity and justice for these communities, and that the engagement 28 process provides avenues for all residents to have their voices included in the final plan. 29 30 Roseville was awarded $76,370 in federal formula funding from the Enegy Efficiency and 31 Conservation Block Grant fund in 2023, and submitted an application in January 2024 to 32 use the funding for a climate action planning process. As of April 2025, Roseville has not 33 received the funding from the Department of Energy, and the future of the program is 34 uncertain. Because of this, Roseville staff applied (Attachment 1) for and was awarded a Page 1 of 3 Qbhf!67!pg!248